荷兰人还实施了另一项颇受争议的工程,即打开一些内陆水坝的缺口,把水引回内陆的一些低田(荷兰围海而得的开拓地,受内陆水坝的保护)。
The Dutch are also implementing a somewhat controversial plan to breach a few inland dikes and allow water back into some of the polders - land reclaimed from the sea and protected by dikes.
在英国电信之前,这个用英语和法语交流无障碍的荷兰人经营荷兰电话公司KPN的部分业务,也曾为美国的朗讯公司工作过。
Before BT, the dutchman-who is at ease in French as well as english-ran part of KPN, the Dutch phone company, and worked for Lucent in America.
他还补充说,荷兰人的城市建设对他启迪良多,并且荷兰人也证明了人类在陆地上和海面下生活都是可以实现的。
But he adds that the Dutch have inspired many of his strategies, and they have shown that it's possible to live on land below sea level.
His invasions at one time are turned back when they literally open the dykes and flood the French armies back.
他的入侵曾一度被击退,因为荷兰人,真的"开闸泄洪",大水把法军淹得够呛
In the mental construction of the Dutch and the English both involves one thing they don't want to be.
在心理层面上,荷兰人和英国人,都不希望这件事的发生
What the Dutch did--the Netherlands is an extraordinarily small country, and it's the most populated country in Europe, then, per square kilometre, and is now--once.
那些荷兰人...荷兰是一个,非常非常小的国家,也是当时欧洲人口密度最高的国家,如果以每平方公里人口计算,现在也是
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